{"product_id":"9780815652816","title":"The 1929 Bunion Derby: Johnny Salo and the Great Footrace across America","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn   March 31, 1929, seventy-seven men began an epic 3,554-mile footrace\u003cbr\u003e     across America that pushed their bodies to the breaking point.   Nicknamed\u003cbr\u003e     the \"Bunion Derby\" by the press, this was the second and last of\u003cbr\u003e     two trans-America footraces held in the late 1920s. The men averaged\u003cbr\u003e     forty-six gut-busting miles a day during seventy-eight days of nonstop   racing\u003cbr\u003e     that took them from New York City to Los Angeles. Among this group,\u003cbr\u003e     two brilliant runners, Johnny Salo of Passaic, New Jersey, and Pete   Gavuzzi\u003cbr\u003e     of England, emerged to battle for the $25,000 first prize along\u003cbr\u003e     the mostly unpaved roads of 1929 America, with each man pushing the\u003cbr\u003e     other to go faster as the lead switched back and forth between them.   To\u003cbr\u003e     pay the prize money, race director Charley Pyle cobbled together a   traveling\u003cbr\u003e     vaudeville company, complete with dancing debutantes, an all-girl\u003cbr\u003e     band wearing pilot outfits, and blackface comedians, all housed under\u003cbr\u003e     the massive show tent that Pyle hoped would pack in audiences.   Kastner’s\u003cbr\u003e     engrossing account, often told from the perspective of the   participants,\u003cbr\u003e     evokes the remarkable physical challenge the runners experienced and\u003cbr\u003e     clearly bolsters the argument that the last Bunion Derby was the   greatest\u003cbr\u003e     long-distance footrace of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118614069488,"sku":"9780815652816","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780815652816_p0.jpg?v=1763748067","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780815652816","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}